Showing posts with label BlackBerry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BlackBerry. Show all posts

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Evernote: the best note-taking app there is!

Image representing Evernote as depicted in Cru...Evernote is a great little digital note-taking app that hopes to rethink the traditional method of the pen and paper. The service offers the ability to turn a variety of media formats into notes, making it something of a mix between a scrapbook and a journal. The application organizes everything from essays, photos, to just random thoughts. While other competitors have failed due to proprietary technologies, Evernote succeeds with its cross-platform compatibility. The free price tag is tempting, but after a few days in use, there is a lot to say about whether the application is helpful or simply another hassle. 
Evernote is packed with so many killer features, and gives its competitors (most prominently, Microsoft's OneNote) a tough time. The app's UI is faster, simpler and more attractive than its competitors. The new layout gets out of your way, so you can focus more of your attention on your notes and less on buttons and scroll bars.It offers the ability to create text-based notes as well as store web clips, computer screenshots, and to-do lists. Evernote also accepts files formats including image files, audio recordings, HTML and PDFs. The application automatically organizes notes by running Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on all data. This enables all stored documents, including pictures of text, to become searchable. Browsing through notes is a simple task since everything is organized by date or name. The application lets you create multiple notebooks carrying multiple notes, it lets you export your notebooks in formats like HTML, HTM, MHT or TXT. There's also an option for merging two or more notes into a single note. It also allows to view geo-tagged notes in Google Maps.
and store it on your computer.

Evernote’s real value is in making data accessible. Cross-platform synchronization allows users with multiple devices to view or create files from just about anywhere. Evernote does has Windows and Mac versions, but it is also compatible with the iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad), Android, BlackBerry, Palm Pre/Palm Pixi and Windows Mobile. There's also a web-based version of Evernote, and there are extensions for Google Chrome and Firefox too which lets you clip content from the web.

Evernote's free basic version gives you all the above-mentioned features and more. However, the paid one, Evernote Premium gives you bigger upload capacity, supports more file types, and offers enhanced security. Plus, you get PDF searching, faster image recognition, and no ads and more, all for the cost of $5 per month or $45 per year.

Evernote sure is a "noteworthy" app, give Evernote a try, go to Evernote.com right away.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Google Android digs deeper into Pakistan


Pakistan’s second Android offering is here. The arrival of the ‘Ideos’ points to the increasing trend of local carriers offering phones running Google’s free operating system, which may lead other providers to soon follow suit.
Chinese tech giant, Huawei – along with China Mobile’s arm in Pakistan, Zong – is bringing the  economical phone to Pakistan, according to a release issued earlier this week.
The Android, a free and open source operating system for mobile phones, has been offering stiff resistance to Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry the world over.
Market research firms predict that Android will ‘blow up’ in its competitors’ faces. According to The Nielsen Company, it is now the most popular operating system among people who purchased a smartphone over the past six months, while RIM’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iOS are in a statistical dead heat for second place.
“Android will become the second-largest operating system in 2010 and challenge Nokia’s Symbian for the number one spot by 2014,” claimed technology analysis firm, Gartner, on September 10.
This is remarkable because it reflects how the free operating system, coupled with cheap hardware, is making its way to populous developing countries which have, till very recently, been devoid of the option of purchasing cheaper smartphones.
Officially, the iPhone has still not been introduced in Pakistan and now that the Android is taking off, Google stands to benefit from the first mover advantage.
Most interesting is the fact that phones running Android can be disturbingly cheap. Huawei’s Ideos will cost around Rs16,000 – in stark contrast to iPhones, with a comparable end user experience in terms of the interface, which are available for anywhere between Rs50,000 and Rs99,000.
Huawei says it has worked closely with Google to make the phone which means that upgrades for the device will be quick. The phone is supposed to run the latest version of the Android: 2.2 Froyo.
This version is important because it introduces support for Adobe Flash Player plugins which allow native viewing of sites like YouTube on the phone. Flash is not supported by the iPhone and according to industry analysts, this is one of the Android’s main weapons in its war against the iPhone.
Just this Thursday, Google reported that its quarterly profit soared on the back of its thriving internet advertising service and that its display and mobile advertisement businesses are also gaining flight. The Google-backed Android software platform for mobile phones has been a ’phenomenal success’, says the California-based company’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt.
The first android phone to be officially offered in Pakistan by a local mobile carrier was Motorola’s Milestone, more popularly known as the ‘Droid’. The Milestone had been released internationally almost a year earlier but was offered by Mobilink last July for Rs.38,000.
Until that time, all Pakistan had to go with from network carriers was the BlackBerry. Now, all this has changed because of Huawei’s Ideos which independent review sites are calling ‘a very good phone given its price’.

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